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I've only ever heard "pert near" used in farm country -- I used to work in the southwestern part of the state, with a lot of first-gen Americans (mostly German descent); they have a lot of their own crazy colloquialisms. "Pert near" might be one of theirs.

A few years ago, I moved from the Western US (Wyoming) to the Midwest (Iowa). A couple interesting things I noticed here that I'd never heard before were the constructs 'trying to' (as in "I'm trying to get drunk tonight", meaning "I want to") and dropping the infinitive in phrases like "needs to be fixed", just saying "needs fixed" instead.

Benny: n. A tourist/vacationer who comes down to the New Jersey beaches from the North Jersey/NY area. The letters stand for the trains B: Brooklyn, Elizabeth, Newark, New York. As someone who grew up at the Jersey Shore, all the locals HATED these people. You can find this exact type of person on The Jersey Shore.

I'm from the US but when I was in England people would ask me "you alright?" I was like "yeah... I'm fine... Why? Is something wrong? What happened?" It made me REALLY uncomfortable until I realized it means what's up, how's it going, etc.

The term came from if a woman had a nice body, but an unattractive face. The joke is, "She's got a great body, but her (butter) face...!" Then it turned into calling girls "butterface" and now it is just "butters."

Lots of these in DC. Definitely heard siscing before. "You got me guh" is one of my favorites, too. It means you made me so angry I made the noise "Guh!" in frustration. Recently heard a girl in Target get off her phone and turn to her friend and say "girl he got me so guh!" No idea why I think it's so funny.

Hella, nigga, "on the real"
Also stupid things people say a lot like "what do you think this is?" or "that's how you do it"
Or adding "diggity" to stuff. Like:
"how you doin?"
"I'm diggity decent"
Or
"wanna go to the mall?"
"I'm diggity down"